More aircraft carrying relief materials from the international community landed at the Yangon International Airport Saturday for the delivery to the hardest cyclone-hit regions of Myanmar.
The international organizations and countries, which sent in the supplies, include the World Food Program (WFP), China, Singapore, Thailand, India and Russia.
Relief supplies generally include items of tent, mosquito net, power generator, medicine, water purifier, dry potato and pork, instant noodles, high-energy biscuit, cloth, zinc sheet, hammer and nail as well as candle.
An Indian relief official told Xinhua at the airport that the country airlifted on the day 35 tons of aid supplies to Yangon, of which medicine accounted for 5 tons.
In the previous days, Indian relief supplies had arrived Yangon by vessel.
Over the last four days, such relief aid had come from some countries and a region by air or by sea. They included Italy, Bangladesh, Japan and Laos as well as China' Taipei.
So far, a total of some 10 countries or regions have brought in aid materials for Myanmar's homeless survivors in the cyclone-devastated regions.
These international aid supplies, along with those donated by different walks of life in Yangon, have been successively transported by the Myanmar side to the disaster-hit Ayeyawaddy delta region as reported.
Meanwhile, the Myanmar government has reportedly agreed to the offer of the United States to send in humanitarian aid which is expected to arrive on next Monday.
Myanmar said it is grateful to the international community for its aid but the best way to help was to send in material rather than personnel, clarifying that the country is not yet ready to receive search and rescue teams as well as media personnel.
The deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bayof Bengal, severely hit last weekend five divisions and states. It caused heaviest ever casualties and infrastructure damage in the country.
Source: Xinhua
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